One of my favorite things is when I find the same advertising photo being used for different purposes. On a recent trip to Palm Desert I saw a billboard for breast augmentation surgery that included an image of a sultry woman who looks vaguely like Monica Bellucci and is wearing a low-cut white top. I wracked my brain trying to figure out where I had seen her before, but couldn't figure it out until I logged onto MySpace at the hotel that night. The exact same photo had been used in a flash animation ad for a "Pimp Your Ride"-style contest that sometimes pops up on my home page.
In the course of my recent image spree I had occasion to stumble upon this website: betterbreasts.net, which promises "natural breast reduction." As an avowed feminist who is concerned about health issues regarding the other gender, I of course clicked on a link from the site that advertised "natural breast augmentation," in case any of my spiritual sisters were to inquire as to where they might find such a service (heh, boobies). Here's that other site: breast-augmentation-pills.com.
This is all my long-winded way of saying that both sites use the same photo of a woman (who looks an awful lot like Charisma Carpenter) measuring her boobs. Now my question is, do you think this is false or misleading advertising, just par for the course, or something else entirely? Using the same photo for explicitly different products is one thing, but using it for products that have similar yet opposite purposes seems to me something else, although I can't put my finger on exactly what.
In the course of my recent image spree I had occasion to stumble upon this website: betterbreasts.net, which promises "natural breast reduction." As an avowed feminist who is concerned about health issues regarding the other gender, I of course clicked on a link from the site that advertised "natural breast augmentation," in case any of my spiritual sisters were to inquire as to where they might find such a service (heh, boobies). Here's that other site: breast-augmentation-pills.com.
This is all my long-winded way of saying that both sites use the same photo of a woman (who looks an awful lot like Charisma Carpenter) measuring her boobs. Now my question is, do you think this is false or misleading advertising, just par for the course, or something else entirely? Using the same photo for explicitly different products is one thing, but using it for products that have similar yet opposite purposes seems to me something else, although I can't put my finger on exactly what.
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mellow - Music:The melodious sounds of my son waking up
